Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Hardcover edition
Author
Max Tegmark
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Physics
Genre
Non-fiction
Publisher
Knopf
Publication date
January 7, 2014
Media type
Print (hardback)
Pages
432
ISBN
978-0307599803
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality is a 2014 nonfiction book by the Swedish-American cosmologist Max Tegmark. Written in popular science format, the book interweaves what a New York Times reviewer called "an informative survey of exciting recent developments in astrophysics and quantum theory" with Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis, which posits that reality is a mathematical structure.[1] This mathematical nature of the universe, Tegmark argues, has important consequences for the way researchers should approach many questions of physics.
^Frenkel, Edward (Feb 14, 2014). "Ad Infinitum 'Our Mathematical Universe,' by Max Tegmark". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved May 2, 2014. [The book] can be divided into two parts, different as day and night. One, by Dr. Tegmark, is an informative survey of exciting recent developments in astrophysics and quantum theory. The other, by Mr. Tegmark, is a discussion of his controversial idea that reality itself is a mathematical structure.
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